Word: whereof
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...incumbent will be selected from among candidates who shall hand in essays on the subject whereof the study is to be promoted by the Fellowship. Competition is open to all candidates for the degree of A. B. in Harvard University in the year 1898, and to members of the Graduate School and the Law School; and, by the terms of the gift, the award is to be made solely with regard to promise and capacity as evidenced by the essays and the general records of candidates, and without regard to their pecuniary means. The holder of the Fellowship will...
...Thomas Elyote, in the Gourernour, 1557, speaks of 'Foote Balle, wherein is nothyng but beastelye fury and extreme violence, whereof proceedeth hurte, and consequently rancour and malice doe remanyne with them that be wounded, wherefore it is to be put in perpetual silence...
...during the present year. The last letter, by Professor W. G. Sumner, takes a rather optimistic view and gives some sound advice to the student body. Professor Sumner has been closely identified with Yale for almost as long a time as any member of the faculty, so he knows whereof he speaks when he declares his convictions that the undergraduates here appreciate learning more than they did thirty years ago, a point which will be incredulously accepted among many in spite of the experience and trust worthiness of its author. His opinion is, that the individual desire for learning...
...believe that coercion +++aosters a distaste for religious matters which in the end amounts to opposition. In consideration, whereof, we recommend that system which would remove from the student the constraint arising from the present system, and leave him freedom of choice...
...soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like the spectroscope, it can both feel and record these impalpable impulses and impressions, these impersonal vibrations of identity between the fragmentary life that is in himself and the larger life of a universe whereof he is a particle...